Found Boxie (also found a bad pet store in Mexico)
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:33 am
While on vaction over in Mexico (still on vacation but in Colorado) I found a boxie in my grandma's yard. They said they fed it bread and tortillas and whatever they had at hand, even processed meats . I didn't want to slap them with the truth but I went ahead and told them the diet wasn't right and explained what was right. The box turtle had shell deformities and was obese, hence it couldn't close it's shell completely. I don't know how that poor thing can survive in 100+ heat since this city is practically in the middle of thr desert.
Well later in the trip we went to this grocery store with a bunch of little stores towards the entrance. Well, there was this one pet store in the middle of all this and it had a bunch of RES, close to 20 in a ten gallon tank in 1/2 of water with the basking spot way above the water. I refrained from talking to the pet store because they won't listen (it's Mexico, what can you expect) so I don't know what the people over there will do once they buy these turtles, and I don't want to know.
Well later in the trip we went to this grocery store with a bunch of little stores towards the entrance. Well, there was this one pet store in the middle of all this and it had a bunch of RES, close to 20 in a ten gallon tank in 1/2 of water with the basking spot way above the water. I refrained from talking to the pet store because they won't listen (it's Mexico, what can you expect) so I don't know what the people over there will do once they buy these turtles, and I don't want to know.